Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are not commonly recognized in healthy patients without predisposing risk. We performed a retrospective study of patients hospitalized with community-acquired MRSA infections from 1992 to 1996 in Honolulu to determine if community-acquired MRSA infections occurred in patients without known risk. Patients hospitaliz...

Introduction: Escherichia coli (E.coli) as a main cause of both nosocomial and community-acquired infections in humans have a relative potential to develop resistance. Nowadays, most infections caused by ESBL-producing E.coli (ESBLEC) had mostly been described as nosocomial acquired or nursing home related. In this study, we employed E-test assay to detect antibiotic resistance of E.coli ...

introduction: methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is responsible for an increasing number of serious hospital- and community-acquired infections. usa300 is known to be the most common cause of community-acquired infections, but recently there have been some reports on hospital-acquired infections caused by this strain. methods: totally 171 isolates of s. aureus were collected fro...

OBJECTIVE Travel-related enteric infections likely represent a large proportion of all enteric infections in British Columbia (BC). The objective of this study was to assess the proportion of enteric infections in BC reported in 2008 associated with international travel in order to understand trends in infections so that targeted interventions can be implemented. METHODS Travel information fo...

Introduction Bacterial infections are the cause of significant mortality and morbidity in children. Infections of surgical importance may affect virtually any organ or tissue in the body. These may be community or hospital acquired. The major groups of community-acquired infections are skin and soft tissue infections, bone infections, and infections of specific organs. Hospital-acquired infecti...

BACKGROUND Bloodstream infections (BSIs) cause considerable morbidity and mortality. The epidemiology of bacterial infections differs in community and hospital settings. Regular surveillance and reporting of pathogens and antimicrobial susceptibility can assist in appropriate management of BSIs. OBJECTIVES To describe the distribution of organisms and of antibiotic susceptibility among isolat...

VOLUME 93 NO. 9 SEMPTEMBER 2010 Approximately two million patients develop a hospital-acquired infection each year in the USA, contributing to approximately 100,000 deaths. To put this into perspective, there are an estimated 70,000 deaths in the US each year due to accidents of all causes. Thus, hospital-acquired infections are one of the leading causes of death in the US. Until recently, ther...